if I see it right the script you show doesn´t start capturing before nautical dusk. That was my point. What if I want to start something before? What if I wanted to start capturing just before nautical dusk and end at astronomical dawn or at any other time?
The code I was trying to run looks like this. It also calls some simple Phyton scripts. The idea was to have a dither function between livestacks without a guide cam via platesolving and recentering the mount . Actually, it works quite well:
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SEQUENCE
RUN PYTHON FROM C:\Users\HK\Desktop\SharpCapScripts\InitializeDither.py
MOUNT SOLVEANDSYNC
RUN PYTHON FROM C:\Users\HK\Desktop\SharpCapScripts\NewDither.py
DELAY 10
LIVE STACKING START
LOOP UNTIL NauticalDawn
LIVE STACKING RESET
LIVE STACK FOR 48 FRAMES SAVING AS FITSRawStack32Bit
LIVE STACKING RESET
LIVE STACK FOR 48 FRAMES SAVING AS FITSRawStack32Bit
MOUNT SOLVEANDSYNC
RUN PYTHON FROM C:\Users\HK\Desktop\SharpCapScripts\NewDither.py
DELAY 10
END LOOP
LIVE STACKING STOP
MOUNT TRACKING None
END SEQUENCE
Regards
Heiko